Wet Cheese Balls, or The Product of Forcing Bored Strangers to Live Together

I don’t have a good song for this, so Spoon is always a good option.

I’ve said in a previous blog post that we keep emphasizing community in DH, and that’s something I only recently began to see. I also mentioned in my last blog post that we went to Ursinus for PCLADLA17 and that kind of turned into something even I didn’t expect: friendship? I had way more engaging discussions at this workshop and conference with both students and advisers, and I definitely felt more engaged with the community for once. We were joined in that nice house by the members of Muellenberg’s DH cohort, and it honestly turned into one of the most fun and low stress nights I’ve had in a while. That’s a lot coming from me, especially given how I don’t really like people (as my mother tends to point out). One of Muellenberg’s cohort is actually a former music director, and one thing I haven’t had the complete pleasure of doing is talking about the weeds of radio music directing. It was safe, relaxed, and many laughs were had.

Community is good. Make sure to appreciate it when you can, even if it’s with a few random strangers, a giant jar of cheese balls, and a pinochle deck they thought was a regular card deck.

-Britt